Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America, Volumen1G.W. Childs, 1866 - 610 páginas |
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... Confederacy of " Seceded ” States proposed , 250 .-- A Provisional Constitution adopted , 251. - South Carolinians rebellious Jefferson Davis elected “ President , ” and Alexander H. Stephens " Vice - President " of the Confederacy ...
... Confederacy of " Seceded ” States proposed , 250 .-- A Provisional Constitution adopted , 251. - South Carolinians rebellious Jefferson Davis elected “ President , ” and Alexander H. Stephens " Vice - President " of the Confederacy ...
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... Confederacy , ” 887 .-- Usurpation and Fraud in Tennessee , 888. - Designs against Harper's Ferry , 890 .-- Destruction at Harper's Ferry , 891. - The Navy Yard and Vessels at Gosport , 892. - Effect of Treachery and Weakness , 394 ...
... Confederacy , ” 887 .-- Usurpation and Fraud in Tennessee , 888. - Designs against Harper's Ferry , 890 .-- Destruction at Harper's Ferry , 891. - The Navy Yard and Vessels at Gosport , 892. - Effect of Treachery and Weakness , 394 ...
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... Confederacy , that statesman and patriot said : - " It is painful to see the unceasing efforts made to alarm the South , by imputations against the North of unconstitu- tional designs on the subject of Slavery . " Madison and Clay were ...
... Confederacy , that statesman and patriot said : - " It is painful to see the unceasing efforts made to alarm the South , by imputations against the North of unconstitu- tional designs on the subject of Slavery . " Madison and Clay were ...
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... Confederacy . " - " Rather than submit one moment to Black Re- publican rule , " Wise wrote to an old friend of his father , in the North , " I would fight to the last drop of blood to resist its fanatical oppression . Our minds are ...
... Confederacy . " - " Rather than submit one moment to Black Re- publican rule , " Wise wrote to an old friend of his father , in the North , " I would fight to the last drop of blood to resist its fanatical oppression . Our minds are ...
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... confederacy of the " Sovereign States , " and that the public mind was constrained to " rise above the consideration of details in the administration of law and justice , up to the vast and solemn issues that have been forced upon us ...
... confederacy of the " Sovereign States , " and that the public mind was constrained to " rise above the consideration of details in the administration of law and justice , up to the vast and solemn issues that have been forced upon us ...
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action adopted afterward Alabama appointed April arms Army Arsenal assembled authority Baltimore Calhoun called Capital Captain Castle Pinckney Charleston citizens Colonel command Commissioners Committee Confederate Congress conspirators Constitution Convention Crittenden Compromise Davis December declared delegates disloyal duty election excitement February Federal flag Florida Fort Moultrie Fort Pickens Fort Sumter forts Free-labor Fugitive Slave Law garrison Georgia Governor guns harbor honor House hundred insurgents James January Jefferson Jefferson Davis John Kentucky Legislature letter Lieutenant Lincoln Louisiana loyal Major Anderson March Maryland ment military Mississippi Missouri Montgomery Moultrie National Government North officers Ordinance of Secession party patriotic peace Pickens politicians President re-enforcements rebellion regiment Republic Republican resolution secede secessionists Secretary Secretary of War seized Senate sent sentiment session Slave-labor Slavery Slemmer South Carolina Southern Confederacy speech Sumter telegraph Texas thousand tion Toombs traitors treason troops Union United Virginia vote Washington City Wigfall William York
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Página 244 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union, to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity...
Página 289 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 181 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Página 559 - Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Página 372 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Página 288 - It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect, are legally void; and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary, or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Página 290 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend
Página 73 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Página 287 - I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Página 244 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the...